Background Excess body weight has been recognised as an important factor in influencing
labour market outcomes. Several hypotheses explain the causal effect of excess body …

Background Overweight has been recognised as a significant public health issue. Several
hypotheses have been posed to explain the impact of overweight on employment outcomes …

This paper analyzes the relationship between three body weight measures and employment
status and wages, thereby broadening the perspective of the literature on obesity and labor …

This chapter surveys the empirical literature on the relationship between body weight and
wages. Mixed results are found for the impact of increasing body weight on wages for …

This chapter summarizes the evidence on the indirect costs of obesity that result from
adverse labour market outcomes (ie, earnings and employment losses) at the individual …

We use data from the European Community Household Panel to investigate the impact of
body weight on wages in nine European countries. When we pool the available data across …

This paper provides new evidence of the effect of body weight on labor market outcomes in
Brazil. The methodology uses the sibling's body mass index as an instrumental variable to …

Although a negative association between obesity and labour market outcomes is commonly
reported in many studies, the causal nature of this relationship remains unclear. Using …

This study presents credible estimates for the causal effect of a variation in obesity on
employment. By exploring random assignment of a weight loss intervention based on …

In this paper, we re-examine the relationship between overweight and labour market
success, using indicators of individual body composition along with BMI (Body Mass Index) …